Verify that an increased latency in a Redis cache is handled by your application properly by having increased processing time but still being able to maintain the throughput.

Check that your application handles a Redis cache downtime gracefully and continues to deliver its intended functionality. The cache downtime may be an unavailable Redis instance or a complete cluster.

When one of your containers has problems starting, it may result in a crash loop and, eventually, Kubernetes backing off to restart this container. Verify that Datadog notices a crash loop and will alert you to take action.

Your application should continue to function properly and indicate unavailability appropriately in case of increased connection latency to PostgreSQL. Additionally, this experiment can highlight requests that need optimization of timeouts to prevent dropped requests.